napkintech by andrew meyer

Harvard Law Professor, Jonathan Zittrain, on ethical considerations of creating value through crowdsourcing/using mass participation:

Companies, government, and other agencies can disguise farmed-out work as games or other mediums. What happens when we spend hours a week on platforms like Mechanical Turk and we don’t know what the data is being used for? What happens on the other end when we use data from these sources to inform us?